The use of elastic pressure socks and the effect of training on surgical patients

This search aims to the effects of usage elastic pressure socks and its evaluation of education on surgial patients. It's a planned segmental study. This search was applied at Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit Unıversity Medical Faculty, the Hospital of Research and Practise, General Surgery, Brain Surgery, Urology Surgery between February 2017 and 2018. It includes 166 patients who are from gastroenterology surgery, breast endocrin, brain surgery, urology oncology. Patients are divided into two groups randomly. Patients receiving deep vein thrombosis in Group I, and patients receiving routine care in Group II were included. Before operation, to the patients in Group I, were given elastic pressure socks by taking their leg measurements. They take courses by giving a brochure about preventation the development of deep vein thrombosis. In Group II, the patients were given some clinical applications by measuring both of their legs' sizes. After 24-48 hours, the elastic pressure socks were taken off and controlled their skin. The problems of the patients regarding the use of socks or the problems expressed by the patient and their applications during the use of elastic pressure socks were evaluated. SPSS 19.0 packet program was used to evaluate the datas. Identifler tests, Kolmogorov tests, Smirnov tests, t test, Mann Whitney test, U test, Wilcoxon test, Pearson test, Yates test, Fisher exact test, chi-square test and McNemar test have been used to make statistically analyse. In all studies, comprasions which are under 0.05 are accepted as meaningful statistically. As a result, it was found that the training given by the nurses in the patients who underwent surgical intervention had an effect on compliance with the use of EPS, and the mean satisfaction score of the patients for the use of ECS was found to be significantly higher in Group I.